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Some people who are into psytrance are into psychedelics, some people who are into psychedelics are into "psychedelic culture". That culture has some people who tend to latch onto various philosophies of other religions, especially eastern religions. However, they are not all necessarily inclusive of eachother. As, you may simply like psytrance and no interest in psychedelics, or into psychedelics and have no interest in those other cultures, or, may be interested in those cultures, yet have no interest in psychedelics or psytrance. And, various other combination of being into one but not the other :P
But, to deny that there is a strong influence of psychedelics in the psytrance scene would be a bit silly, just look at how many producers / comps / song names / etc pull in references to mushrooms, LSD, DMT, etc. Hell, 1200 mics have an entire album with each song named after a different psychedelic... just sayin...
But, there can be quite a strong culture around psytrance, especially once you start looking at the festival circuit / doofs, which also gets quite a bit of a "hippie" vibe.
Toss in the roots of Goa/Psy going back to Goa India, hippies traveling on the road through India for 'spiritual/personal enlightenment' (or, just to get high and have a good time, to each their own).
I can sort of get how he followed the train of thought to ask the question even if he didn't articulate it very well. But, the question didn't seem that out of left field to me.
Last edited by kaniz on Nov-24-2008 at 05:46
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